x, 835 p. : 24 cm

Includes index

Oriki: ancestors and roots -- The house at the forty-two steps -- A tale of two cities -- "A better neighborhood" -- Bronx science: young manhood -- Howard University: everything and its opposite -- NAG and the birth of SNCC -- Nonviolence--apprenticeship in struggle -- The great leap forward: the freedom rides -- Nashville: a new direction -- To school or not to school -- The hearts and minds of the student body -- Mississippi (1961-65): going home -- A band of brothers, a circle of trust -- Of marches, coalitions, dreams, and ambulance chasing -- Summer '64: ten dollars a day and all the sex you can handle -- They still didn't get it -- The unforeseen pitfalls of "success" American style -- Selma: crisis, chaos, opportunity -- Lowndes county: the roar of the panther -- "Magnified, scrutinized, criticized..." -- "We gotta make this our Mississippi" -- Black power and its consequences -- Around the world in eighty days -- Mother Africa and her suffering children -- In that Ol' Brier patch -- Conakry, 1968: home to Africa -- Cancer brings out the best in people -- A struggle on two fronts

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